The aim of this paper is to bring into attention the creative accounting phenomenon. Typesof creative accounting practices has been examined comparing scandals occurred in large companiesin the last two decades. In order to realize this scope we define the concept of creative accounting andits...

Understanding and the interpretation of financial statements is an important factor for economic entities, for making the right decisions. Nowadays, more and more is noticed the general tendency of the harmonization of the Directive IV of the European Committee with International Financial...

The purpose of this study is to use structural equation modelling (SEM) to investigate the extent to which different monitoring mechanisms – the board and its committees, shareholders and independent auditors – are complements (i.e. a positive covariance) or substitutes (a negative...

As of January 1, 2011, most of the world financial market economies are using International Reporting Standards (IFRS) as the required framework for financial statements. A non-comprehensive listing includes the European Union Countries, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. In the United States,...

Los contables se enfrentan a profundos cambios en su contexto, tanto económicos como socialesy académicos, de tal manera que, mercado, empresa, industria y universidad se funden en interesesy valores cada vez más contradictorios. Estas transformaciones implican nuevos retos tantopara docentes...

We examine the consequences on impairment testing disclosures of auditor-pair choice made by French listed companies where two (joint) auditors are required by law. Managers are likely to manipulate impairment-testing disclosures since it relies on unverifiable fair value estimates (e.g.,...